"Then how is the emperor going to divide India?"

Zhan Xingchang asked interestingly.

"It is too early to divide it, what is needed for the empire now is to maintain its rule over India for a long time." Xiao Ming said.

In contemporary times, India's independence is dramatic, and unlike many of the many ways in which the occupiers were driven out by war, India's independence actually came to its knees, and that was Gandhi's nonviolent non-resistance movement.

After independence, India still worships the United Kingdom, the country that once ruled it, and even has always been a member of the British Commonwealth, and is proud of this.

Therefore, in Xiao Ming's opinion, it will not be difficult to take over the British rule of India after driving out the British, and after achieving complete domination, they will slowly divide India culturally, linguistically, and religiously, and if one day the empire is forced to withdraw from India, then they will leave a chaotic India.

Thinking of this, he explained his thoughts to the crowd.

"If so, we still have a lot to do after ruling India." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "But before we can win the war in front of us, as for the governance of other colonies, Zhan Xingchang's idea is not bad, for a small number of natives to occupy the land, we will completely occupy it by means of immigration, but the area with a huge number of natives can completely use the natives in order to collect resources, after all, the natives of the Nanyang generation basically make a living from farming, and they have their use value." ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and after such a discussion, the empire's foreign colonial policy was now basically determined.

After deciding on this matter, Xiao Ming asked the cabinet ministers to go back and think about the detailed colonial policy, after all, as the empire became larger and larger, they had to formalize this area.

At the same time, he asked Qian Dafu to send another combat order to the Southeast Military Region, urging them to launch an offensive in Nanyang.

……

December 20th.

After waiting for half a month, Lei Ming successfully received the first batch of 300 mortars and 20,000 mortar shells in Xinjiapo.

Although he was not satisfied with the number of shells, he was reassured by the quartermaster's assurances that the next batch of shells would be supplied in time.

"It should be snowing in Qingzhou now." The Thunder on the King smiled and said to Yue Yun, "If Lu knew that we were still wearing such cool clothes, I don't know what kind of expression it would be." ”

Yue Yun also had a smile on his face, before the empire had carried out scientific education, he was just outside the bottom of the well, and he only had the side of the world in Dengzhou in his eyes.

But now it was different, the voyage in the North and South Seas made him truly realize the wonder of this world, and even so, his footsteps were only in Asia, and he had always wanted to control a warship that could sail on the world's oceans.

"It's definitely snowing, and hopefully we'll be able to go home in time for the New Year after this fight." Yue Yun said.

Sighing at the mention of this thunder, he said: "You can, it is estimated that our army will be difficult, according to the information we have received, the British, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch coalition forces have built strong fortifications in Calcutta, even if there are mortars, I am afraid that if we want to win this war, we will have to pay a heavy price." “

Yue Yun has a deep enough understanding of the current war, he said: "The current war can no longer rely on the physical combat of the soldiers, all that is needed is the bombardment of artillery shells to destroy the enemy's strength and break the enemy's will. ”

Lei Ming nodded, "The more I am thinking about this, the situation of the war has changed, there is no need to let the soldiers die in vain when we have superior firepower, of course, our soldiers are not afraid of death." “

Yue Yun agreed with Lei Ming's words, and now the fighting enthusiasm of the imperial soldiers was still very high, and after a short vacation, they entered a state of war again.

Looking at the endless ocean, he said: "Time waits for no one, we must at least give the emperor a gift before the New Year, even if Kolkata cannot be taken, Jakarta must be occupied." “

"We're ready to go." Lei Ming said: According to the requirements of the General Staff, this time the Southeast Army will act together with the Navy.

Yue Yun's mission is to annihilate the enemy navy in Jakarta, while his mission is to occupy Jakarta with the Marines.

"In that case, I'll leave early tomorrow morning." Yue Yun's eyes were sharp.

The next day, with the loud whistle of the steam warship, the ironclad fleet slowly left Xinjiapo and headed for Jakarta.

A day later, the fleet appeared at its destination.

"This is the ironclad of the Chinese Empire?" On the coast, Ivel, Simon, Eric, and Stephen looked at the steel battleship moored off the coast of Jakarta with heavy faces.

Unlike the Sail Battleships, these Steel Battleships had no sails, instead had smoky chimneys.

Against the blue sea, these silver-painted battleships look terrifying.

They were even more shocked when they saw through the telescopes the guns on the battleship, which, unlike the sail ships, had a varying number of guns on the deck, while the guns on the sides of the battleship were much less.

"Now you should understand how terrible the industrial capacity of the Chinese Empire is, only a year ago, they only had an ironclad ship." Eric sighed, "It's a nightmare to confront an empire like this. “

Stephen's face was a little pale, his attitude was not as tough as before, and he said, "Do you think we are willing to get involved in the war? In the war with the Chinese Empire, we have lost only the interests of Asia, but if we continue to cooperate with them, we in the Netherlands will face the risk of extinction, because the Netherlands is a small country and a sparse population, and even if the French are backward in weapons, they can still defeat us. ”

Ivor and Simon fell silent, this is the sorrow of small countries, they are the first to be crushed in the game of big powers.

"It's too late to say anything, the enemy is at sea, how are we going to fight next?" "I don't want to lose Jakarta. “

Stephen had the greatest power, saying: "No matter how strong the enemy's fleet is, we must give it our all, and since we have chosen to stand with the Europeans, we cannot be half-hearted." ”

As he spoke, Stephen looked at Eric.

Then he said: "After half of the enemy's soldiers have landed, Eric will be responsible for leading the fleet, and Ivor and Simon will be in charge of the frontal battle, and 20,000 soldiers will be handed over to you." “

Eric smiled bitterly, but finally nodded, although he envied the technology of the Chinese Empire, he was a Dutchman, and for the good of the Netherlands, the Chinese Empire was their mortal enemy.

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